Subject: [b-hebrew] Masoretic marks [was: Dagesh's]
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:42:14 -0400 (EDT)
>My presumption is that the Masoretes won't have used one mark for two
>different phonological events. So there should be no difference between
You don't think the rapheh has more than one phonological function?
(For those who don't know: the rapheh is the line over a letter; it
marks the lack of a Dagesh in a Beged Kefet letter and also a silent
Aleph, as in breshit.)